Twenty Games

He's the most dangerous man in hockey. For the next twenty games, he isn't allowed to touch anyone.

DEL

I've spent eleven seasons being the hardest thing on the ice. Captain of the Westlake Sirens. Most penalty minutes in league history. The one you send over the boards when somebody needs reminding of their manners.

So when ownership drops Beckett Hale on my team, the enforcer who just ended a kid's career and got twenty games for it, and calls it community engagement, I understand exactly what I am. A photo op. A redemption arc with a ponytail.

Fine. He wants to serve his sentence on my ice? I'll make it a real one.

BECKETT

Twenty games. No contact. Smile for the cameras, run a few drills for the women's team, come back a changed man.

Nobody told me the women's team had Delaney Rourke.

She skates like a grudge. She hits harder than half my teammates. And she looks at me like she's the only person in this city who isn't afraid of what I am.

She should be. When she's done lying about what she wants, she'll come to me and say my name, and then I'm not going to be careful with her at all. Because the longer I watch her take every hit for everyone else, the more I want to be the one thing in her life that doesn't hurt.

Enemies to lovers. Forced proximity. Grumpy meets grumpier. Possessive, rough and sure of what he wants. He falls first. One bed on the road. A whole team that knows before they do.

Twenty Games is a dark, steamy, standalone enemies-to-lovers hockey romance with a dominant hero, explicit open-door scenes, a guaranteed happy ending and a found family that will not stop filming. Book one of the Westlake Sirens series; each book follows a different Siren and can be read on its own. For readers 18+. Content notes are included in the book.